Checking in daily to maintain focus #64

46 days AF
On my way.
Love ya, take care :kissing_heart:

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115 sugar
13 UPF
0 overeating/binge

Overate yesterday twice. It might have been a trigger food thing, my period that came out of nowhere or me sabotaging myself. Iā€™ll keep an eye on it.

Goals for today: keeping food journal, mindful eating.

Iā€™m going to meet with a fried for coffee in a few and there is a demonstration at noon Iā€™m planning to attend. Other than that only stuff around the flat. I have to admit Iā€™m not very motivated today to do anything. But Iā€™m going to listen to myself and find a way to be compassionate.

Have a good day friends :peace_symbol::people_hugging::dove:

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Day 266

Wow. Weird dreams. Thanks for the words of support. I didnā€™t have a beer. I just had an early night. Pre_ ordered taylor swifts album. Thereā€¦ Confession timeā€¦ I like taylor swift and I have an alcohol problem. :slight_smile:

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Thanks Jasmine Iā€™m just going to keep plugging on. Hope you are also recovering well :pray:t3:

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Day 6 almost 7. Cant sleep as good but am keeping myself occupied for the most part.

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Iā€™m here, Iā€™m alive and Iā€™m sober.
Day 17.

Still raining.

@Just_Laura so coo to get to know about your Swedish ancestors. Thank you for telling me. :blush:

No big plans for today.
Iā€™m going to make another try and bake some Easter cakes and goodies. Yesterdayā€™s attempt to make a gluten, dairy and egg free roll up cake. Didnā€™t went well. When I was going to roll in up it ended like it does when things in cartoons turn to ashes, but my roll up cake turned to crumbs instead. :laughing:

The bbq burgers my husband did was amazing though. He did bbq them outside despite the rain. We used bacon spice, next time, probably next weekend Iā€™m going to make them with adobo spice (or Brazilian spice as we call it, my father spent years working in Brazil when I was young)

Still donā€™t really have anything against the rain. My 12 y/o calls rainy weekend days for Jazz days, and require us to play jazz music on Spotify on the Google speaker in the kitchen during those day. Itā€™s really nice and relaxing.

Wishing you all a happy Jazz day :heart:

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Your views are always amazing. I love your photos.
Hope you feel better soon.
Did you end up buying any Droste?
Wishing you a wonderful day.

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Glad that youā€™re feeling good, donā€™t forget that you need some rest in-between everything.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend. :blush:

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day 544 af

Spent the morning in the gym with said friend from previous post, was a good session.

Then drive 2hrs to see my son and hang out with him, wifey gave me a beard trim and hair cut.

went to dinner with my wife and work mate! Was good as!

Time to relax

Life is good currently love being able to share my journey and help another

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Day 33 AF
A very pleasant Saturday night here with some beautiful Summer type weather continuing into Autumn. Heavy boxing training session yesterday followed up with a lighter weights session today. Rest day tomorrow. Been listening to David Goggins on YouTube, very inspirational.
Feeling freaking unstoppable.
Peace and strength to all.

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Day 2. What happened? I got arrogant with me 100+ days of behaving. Started having booze in the house for others then bang, fell into a 7 day relapse. Number of blackouts. The detoxing is rough this time.

Booze is back in the drain or gifted away.

What have I done different this time? I sent a message to my family admitting my problem (they knew of course it Iā€™d never said it out loud), and asking for their support in quitting for good.

I checked in here to own my mistake and start my journey again, albeit with a sore head and even sorer ego.

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Glad youā€™re back James.
Take a deep breath and start new. Youā€™ve had quite a stack of sober days before so you know what works for you. Just get your sober tools together and build more. Look what lead to the recent relapse. Did you see it coming? Did you notice a slippery slope?
Good job on coming back to the community straight away. Good job on being honest and reaching out to family too.
Wishing you all the best on your journey James.
You can do it!
Welcome back again.

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Hey Jazzy,
Thank you. I agree that our soberity journeys differ. I also appreciate the fact that every win over our addictions should be celebrated.

Love that you said you felt like your higher power doing the work. This is it, what I achieve is total surrender and dependence on our HPā€™s will. Then everything will fall into place and complete freedom will be achieved. This is the miricale. :pray:t5:

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Glad your back James, taking accountability is key. There is no shame in coming back. You have shown you can do it, now do it again. ODAAT!

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I have been wanting tp quit smoking for so fuxking long ita driving me mental. Im goinf to make this day 1ā€¦fuxk it. I will be here to check in on my cravings and the asshole page.

Ive been afraid fo say day 1 or i quit because its so easy to just feel like I need one. Im so tired of it. Every. Aspect. Of. It. GAH. LETS GO!

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Good morning sober peeps! Checking in on day 106. Yesterday was shit, really bad day. Family shit that hurt my feelings and made me mad, mad is how I have also dealt with hurt, so unhealthy. This time I took time, I didnā€™t lash out at my brother and his wife for being selfish pricks because during the time I took to think about it, I realized this is nothing new and I need to evaluate my expectations and control what I can control which is how I react. I will admit there is still some childish tendencies there as I will not be making any effort to see him while heā€™s here on vacation, if it happens it happens, it canā€™t just be important to me, it has to be for him too. Anyway, Iā€™m not going to keep rambling. My point is even though it was a shit day, my feelings got in it, I cried but what Iā€™m taking from it is what I learned about myself and focusing on controlling what I can control. I hope everyone has the most amazing day and letā€™s keep kicking ass!!
:v:t3: and :purple_heart:

@james83 happy your back! You got this! :people_hugging:

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Hey all, checking in on day 1371. I hope everybody has a good one!

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Thank you James. It was a learning experience for me and one that was much needed. I am definitely going to check out that book my friend, thank you for the suggestion :heart:

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Checking in with 231 days of not picking up a drink

Itā€™s past noon here and itā€™s my weekend off work.
I slept long and Iā€™m fine but I already start to feel lazy and like wasting my time on my sofa. Uphhh I donā€™t like it.

Another coffee and than of for a walk maybe.
Wish me luck :wink:

Thank you my TS friends :kissing_heart: you have no idea how much of a support you are to me even if I donā€™t text much. I know we are there for one another.
Have a great weekend everyone, sober and clean :pray::muscle::kissing_heart:

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Day 71

Popped knee before workout yesterday but pushed through as it was an upper body session. Doing a little hobbling today.

I saw someone speak about the shininess coming off sobriety and that kinda hit home as it has been for me as well almost 2.5 months in. Iā€™m also glad Iā€™ve added in workouts and healthy eating as well as it gives more than just a single thing to focus on and itā€™s all kind of a package and the gym improvements definitely keep things more exciting, but Iā€™m unsure if thatā€™ll be enough. I need to dig in a bit more to work this sobriety portion as I want it to be long term and I think Iā€™m in that point where itā€™s a bit meh :face_with_diagonal_mouth:. Still going to stay the path but will need to understand it more.

Sonā€™s team won game one. Holy crap exciting. Score was 4-3 last minute and half we had two guys in penalty box remainder of game and they pulled goalie. So 6 on 3 for a minute and a halfā€¦ yikes! Boys played solid defensively and goalie stopped what needed stopping. Game 1 in best of 7 in bank. Game 2 this afternoon at 5:30pm. Should be another goodun. These two teams were separated by 1 point in standings for regular season so they are going to battle till the end I suspect!!

Go Knights, and enjoy your weekend all!
:pray::heart::peace_symbol:

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